Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

Our public dealings with the Russians can hardly lead to any clear and satisfactory results unless they are preceded by preparatory discussions of the most secret and delicate nature.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

Such recognition is not necessary in order to enable the United States to intervene and pacify the Island.

The United States now has as its goal much more than simply containing Soviet expansionism. We seek the integration of the Soviet Union into the communlty of nations.... Ultimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order.

I don't recall anyone who was strongly against except one man, and that was the President [JFK]. The President just didn't want to be convinced that this was the right thing to do.... It was really the President's personal conviction that U.S. ground troops shouldn't go in.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

The United States is undergoing a transformation in how it relates to the rest of the world. We are becoming a nation that has no more negotiators and peacemakers, that shoots first and asks questions later.

I would adore to make up with the United States of America... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend?

Iraq deals with the United States regardless of who is in the White House.

I did not support the U.S. decision to intervene with military force in Libya. The evidence was not persuasive that a large-scale massacre or genocide was either likely or imminent. Policies other than military intervention were never given a full chance.

America is a force for good in the Middle East.